What does it mean when you...(injury update)

So last night I had an unexpected injury that just might be placing me on the DL. It's kind of strange because I wasn't even running when it happened. So anyways, I was picking up my cousin from work and he asked me to stop him by the Piggly Wiggly (A grocery store. I like their name. LOL.) He was only gonna be a few minutes, so I figured I'd wait in the car. But...I got hungry. So when I got out of my car to go in and grab a little snack, my leg maneuvered in a strange way. I thought, "huh. That felt weird." So I kept walking, and almost immediately after I got through the doors, I felt a sharp pain. It hurt so bad. Like Ric Flair Figure 4 Leg Lock bad! I was limping through the frozen foods when I saw my cousin. I whimpered, "dude, my leg. I think I pulled something." I tried to stretch it out when I got home, but I started hurting even more and I ended up on my bedroom floor in the fetal position clutching a half-eaten granola bar (which is why I didn't bloop about it last night...) I stretched it again this morning and walked a flight of stairs. Still hurts, but not as bad as yesterday. My best guess is that it's a groin pull, but I'm no doctor.

I'm no doctor either, but I do have a lot of experience getting injured doing the most ordinary things.

Could be a lot of things, but have you considered a bad cramp? I used to get terrible groin cramps in my teens while swimming. It would be sharp searing pain while happening, aching for several hours later, and then persisting soreness the next day. A bad cramp can feel like a pretty severe injury if it lasts long enough.

Hopefully it's that because it goes away pretty fast after day 2. Good luck!

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